New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-22
MANUAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS
PRESIDENT HUNTER ADVOCATES INDUSTRIAL EDU-
CATION FoR LIE NORMAL COLLEGE.

pRFsIDFNT HUNTER ADVOCATES INDUSTRIAL EDU-
CATION FOR THE NORMAL COLLEGE.
In the annual report OF the Normal College that has
inst been published President Hunter recommends that
manual training should be introduced in the college
studies The chief difficulty in introducing the forms OF
industrial education in the public school system arises
he argues from the want Of competent teachers such
teachers could be trained in the college, and within
year or two sufficient number could be prepared TO
introduce manual training in all the primary ana female
grammar schools of NewYOrk.
At the end OF the second year In the college the rocs
sional study begins students then through their
parents might select either Of two normal courses the
present course for manual and industrial educa
ton This new course the report says could he intro
duced into the college curriculum at moderate eAcn7e
All freehand drawing could be taught by the teachers OF
drawing now in the college faculty Professor Gilet
who teaches physics anu chemistry, coni1 telch
telegraphy and typewring In addition 70 tnls thcro
might be visiting teacher In stenography In inc S1
ting and sewing Of garments in modelling In clay and In
cooking. An advantage OF such course Woud ne, Tres
ident Hunter says, 10 relieve lhe prc1sIe vi s
graduates who desire positions AZ teachers III tne oII
nary Of the schools IL would also proVlhe ON
plOyment for those students who have an aptitude Tor
handicrafts rather than for purely nelI9ctual "9rh
Several years ago in his annual report Dr. Hunter ave
Gaed an eoSo s ndnstrI troning No action regard
Ing II then taken by the Board OF EDUCATION nnt the
interest that has developed IN industrial education wlt
in two years makes probable that such course VIII
soon be adopted. 100
young women. Including those In the training school
which part of the college there are more than SoOo
The students OF the college number nearly 500 young
women who have been promoted from the grammar
schools OF the city OF the S4a9 graduates. nearly
1000 are employed in the public schools OF the city
making more than half OF the force OF teachers OF the
Dublic schools of York When deaths marriages ana
removals are considered II Is shown that the statement
often made that for every teacher appointed there are
fwenty applicants is untrue. The report also shows
that the college ia institution for any special class
OF the community, but that tho mechanical the mecaI
tile the manufacturing aud tho professional classes are
fairly represented IN the college Lately inc occupa
lions of The patents and guardians OF the students were
obtained in snch way 20 secure perfect accuracy
Three bankers are balanced by three day-laborers,
four presidents by four coachmen. seven ven
clergymen by masOnS, twenty ono
physicians by twenty-one bookkeepers. seven BLACK
smiths by seven clotiers. These are accidental equa
ties Twenty-nine carpenters set against twenty
four LAWYERS thiry-four brokers against trtyeight
clerks thrtysx agents against thlrtythree teachers
holers city state ana Federa against
seyenty-one OF business chiefly wdows. by adding
the number OF occupations purely mechanical we hhd
nearly 200 skilled wOrkmen TO set against l9l iner
chants, and l22 manufacturers against as many I'M
skilled workmen Traders editors journalists, reporters
ianors grocers, horse dealers etc. etc, all hayetheir
representative in college There Jews and Gentes
and the children OF almost every European nationality
Dark-skinned negroes sit beside fairhared scan
dinavians and almost every creed under the sun Is
represepted.